A bit over the top? Arteta calls RAF pilots to improve communication!?
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Reading Time: 3min | Tue. 30.09.25. | 10:07
Arsenal boss is doing everything in his power to upgrade his players as much as possible
Since becoming the manager of Arsenal in 2019, Mikel Arteta managed only one trophy with the Gunners – 2019/20 FA Cup. Needles to say, the fans are not happy with this. But the Spaniard is aiming at the highest prize – The Premier League trophy. Arsenal finished second for the three straight years and after so many quality reinforcements in June transfer window, they are more than ready to stop Liverpool at taking the trophy for the second straight season. And Arteta is determined to do whatever it takes to make that happen. He is always thinking about possible ways to get his team one step up and improve them, and it seems he is sometimes over the top with his ideas. The latest one is to improve internal communication by inviting RAF pilots for a training session!
Even before this ‘Top Gun’ idea, Arteta had his moments like hiring professional pickpockets to go around the tables taking things from players at a team dinner to try to teach them a lesson in being prepared and alert at all times. Now, he was asked in a public event alongside his friend and legendary basketball coach Steve Kerr, about constant ways to improve himself and his players and he revealed.
“It’s a constant improvement. I can wake up one day and say ‘my process on match day is not good enough. Why we are communicating to the players, starting from between us coaches to the analysts, to the other guys, to actually how the message is delivered. I don’t like it. Who is the best at that? So, the British fighter planes, for example. I will get in touch with those guys, how they communicate, because that is life or death. I’m sure they don’t use 20 phrases or 20 words if there is one word. Don’t say ‘nah, the wind is coming this way, now you have to turn left’, because boom, dead. So, it will be one word” Arteta explained.
The Spaniard is obviously very keen on the pilots idea as he already talked about it just a few weeks ago at another event.
“So what is it? How specific can we be? How clear can we be? And bring the pilots in and say ‘I want you to analyse our process, three days, how we communicate, how we do that in training, how we do that and I want to get better at this’. And be vulnerable, you know, and get it smashed and say ‘you guys are terrible at this, you need to improve’ and so ‘OK, we are going to get better at this” he said at the Lead Better, Live Better Summit 2025.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - MATCHDAY 2
Tuesday
19.45: (1.95) Atalanta (3.70) Club Brugge (4.10)
19.45: (35.0) Kairat Almaty (14.0) Real Madrid (1.08)
22.00: (1.48) Atl.Madrid (4.85) Eintr.Frankfurt (6.75)
22.00: (3.15) Bodo (3.75) Tottenham (2.15)
22.00: (1.70) Chelsea (4.00) Benfica (5.25)
22.00: (4.95) Galatasaray (4.30) Liverpool (1.70)
22.00: (1.28) Inter (5.90) Slavia Praha (9.50)
22.00: (1.48) Olympique Marseille (4.70) Ajax (7.00)
22.00: (21.0) Paphos (11.0) Bayern (1.12)
Wednesday
19.45: (2.70) Qarabag (3.35) Copenhagen (2.60)
19.45: (3.50) St.Gilloise (3.45) Newcastle (2.10)
22.00: (1.20) Arsenal (6.75) Olympiakos (14.0)
22.00: (1.95) Barcelona (3.70) PSG (3.70)
22.00: (1.83) Dortmund (3.50) Ath.Bilbao (4.50)
22.00: (1.87) Leverkusen (3.60) PSV (4.20)
22.00: (6.75) Monaco (4.40) Man.City (1.48)
22.00: (1.90) Napoli (3.50) Sporting (4.10)
22.00: (2.35) Villareal (3.35) Juventus (3.05)
***odds are subject to change***
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